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Sawmill and millstone of Cal Pal

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:38:00 +0200

The sawmill and the millstone are a real example of the active past of the valley. They date back to the end of the 16th century and beginning of the XVII, and have stopped working around the years 1960, then have been restored and inaugurated on July 21st, 1996.

In the course of the visit, two demonstrations are directed:
The carving of the wood by means of a hydraulic saw, where one can appreciate the roll and all the elements that constitute it, and the transformation of the wheat in flour, that makes in the millstone. To redo to work the sawmill, one has reproduced the parts artisanally and the whole canal of water and the cart of the sawmill have been redone. The used trunks make 2,20 m at 2,30 m about and are cut in boards or in beams.
The demonstration is accompanied with an explanatory documentary.

Opened from June to October. from the Tuesday to the Sunday.

Timetables

Of the Tuesday at the Saturday from 9h30 to 13h30 and from 15h30 to 18h30
Sundays and holidays from 10 hr to 14 hr

Closed the Mondays.

Price:

Adults 2,00€
Groups 1.00
Student and children of less than 10 years free.

AD300 ORDINO (+376) 737 080

The Tobotronc of Naturlandia

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:12:00 +0200

NATURLANDIA is, without doubt, one of the most innovative and attractive initiatives to be started in recent years by the Commune of Sant Julià de Lòria. It is a new way of enjoying leisure time, maximising the opportunities offered by a privileged area in the high mountains.

More than 330 hectares, at an altitude varying between 1,500 and 2,000 metres, form NATURLANDIA, a great natural space freely accessible and in constant evolution, where new proposals will be included progressively and gradually.

NATURLANDIA enables everyone to enjoy nature in an integrated way and all year round, respecting the environment, serving the public and improving their quality of life, assisting in the economic development of the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria and forming the finest tourist offer in the south of the Principality of Andorra

The Tobotronc is probably the most spectacular attraction of the park. It is at this day the slideway of nature the longest of the world with its 5,3km of lengh. The Tobotronc proposes a route in the middle of the forest on a small car washing off rails in all safety. The pilot controls permanently the speed with brakes that he manoeuvres himself.

Naturlandia
St Julia of Loria

www.naturlandia.ad
info@naturlandia.ad

Bridge of the Margineda

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:21:00 +0200

Bridge of time Roman, It is the greatest and majestic medieval bridge of the Principality, it has a length of 33 meters and a height of 9,20 meters.

La Margineda
AD500 Andorra la Vella

tel (+376) 827 117

turisme@comuandorra.ad

The forge Rossel

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:31:00 +0200

The valley of Andorra has been a producing region of iron between the XVII and XIX centuries. The Forge Rossell is one of the testimonies the better preserved ones of the Pyrenees of this time,

Opened the whole year

Timetables

. July and August From the Tuesday to the Saturday, from 9 hr to 20 hr Sundays from 10 hr to 14 hr

. September June Of the Tuesday at the Saturday, of 9h30 to 13h30 and of 15 hr at 18h30.

The Sundays from 10 hr to 14 hr

Closed the Sundays afternoon and the Mondays

Please, for a visit with demonstration of the hammer, reserve beforehand.

Price

Adults 2.40 € (3.60 € with demonstration of swift).
Children of less than 10 years free entry

Night visits (Free entry) The Thursdays night :27 July and 24 August Timetables: from 21 hr to midnight

Ave. del Través s/n AD400 THE MASSANA

Such a (+376) 835 852

www.forgerossell.ad
forgerossell@andorra.ad

Museum Casa Cristo

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:04:00 +0200

Casa Cristo offers a vision of the modus vivendi of modest andorrans families of the end of the 19th century to you.

The night visits take place in the light of the candles, in order to remind the life of the owners of the house of the time- Once the finished visit, legends and of the stories are read close to the chimney.

Timetables

July and August: Of the Tuesday at the Saturday, of 9 hr at 13 hr and of 15h30 at 19h30 From September to June: Of the Tuesday at the Saturday, of 9 hr at 13 hr and of 15 hr at 18h30

Closed the Sundays and the Mondays

Night visits: July and August every Wednesday at 22 hr

Price

-Adults 2.40 €
- Children of less than 12 years free
- Étudiants and reprocessed 1,20€ Opened the whole year

ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM against / dels Cavallers, 2 the Mosquera
AD200 Encamp

(+376) 833 551 - 731 490 - 731 000

www.encamp.ad
casacristo@encamp.ad

National Museum of Automobile

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:49:00 +0200

The national Museum of Automobile redraws the transformation of the vehicles throughout the history, from the steam engine, as the Pinette (1885), oldest piece of the Museum. until the years 1970. one can also admire a hundred bikes that are exposed to it.

Timetables

July and August: Of the Tuesday at the Saturday, from 9 hr to 20 hr; Sundays and holidays, of 10 hr at 14 hr From September to June: Of the Tuesday at the Saturday, of 9h30 to 13h30 and of 15 hr at 18h30; Sundays and holidays, from 10 hr to 14 hr

- Closed the Sundays afternoon and The night Mondays visits:

The Thursdays on July 20th and on August 17th From 21 hr to midnight. Free night: entry

Price

Adults 2,40 €

Children of less than 10 years free entry

Opened the whole year

Ave. Coprincep Epistopal 64 AD200 Encamp (museuautomobil@andorra.ad)

Tél. (+376) 832 266

Reservations: (+376) 839 760 (reserves.museus@andorra.ad)

Andorra la Vella

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:07:00 +0200

Andorra la Vella is the capital of the Co-principality of Andorra, and is located high in the east Pyrenees between France and Spain. It is also the name of the parish that surrounds it. The town of Santa Coloma is located in the province.

The principal industry is tourism, although the country also earns foreign income from being a tax-haven. Furniture and brandies are local products.

Geography and climate

Andorra la Vella is located in the south west of Andorra, at 42°30′N, 1°30′E. , at the confluence of two mountain streams. Located at an altitude of 1,409 metres (4,620 ft) , it is a high capital and popular ski resort. Its climate is Temperate with cold winters and warm, drier summers. Temperatures range from an average of around −1 °C (30.2 °F) in January and 20 °C (68 °F) in July; rainfall is at 808 millimetres (31.8 in) a year.

Transportation

Surprisingly for a capital city, it is three hours drive from the nearest airports, at Toulouse, Girona, Perpignan and Barcelona. This is a result of its small population size and highly mountainous terrain. It has no train station either, with a bus service linking the city to the French station at L'Hospitalet, which has mainline services to Paris.

Demographics and language

Native Andorrans account for only 33% of the population, with the plurality being Spanish (43%), and notable minorities of Portuguese (11%) and French (7%). Catalan is the official language, although Spanish, Portuguese and French are also spoken. Most of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, with a high life expectancy of over 80 years

History

The site of Andorra la Vella (literally, "Andorra the Old") has been settled since prior to the Christian era - notably by the Andosin tribe from the late Neolithic. The state is one of the Marca Hispanica created and protected by Charlemagne in the eighth century as a buffer from the Moorish settlers in the Iberian Peninsula .

The settlement has been the principal city of Andorra since 1278 when the French and the Episcopal co-princes agreed to joint suzerainty. Andorra La Vella's old town - the Barri Antic - includes streets and buildings dating from this time. Its most notable building is the Casa de la Vall - constructed in the early sixteenth century - which has been the state's parliamentary house since 1707. Andorra la Vella was, during this period, the capital of a largely isolated and feudal state, which retained its independence due to this principle of co-sovereignty.

Well into the twentieth century, the area around Andorra La Vella remained largely forgotten; indeed the state was not part of the Treaty of Versailles, simply because it was not noticed. After political turmoil in the 1930's and an attempted coup by King Boris I, an informal democracy developed.

In 1993, the country's first constitution formalised this parliamentary democracy with executive, legislative, and judicial branches located in Andorra la Vella.

During this period, Andorra also developed as both a tax haven, resulting in the construction of modern banking offices in Andorra La Vella. The city also developed its skiing facilities, to the extent that Andorra la Vella was Andorra's applicant city for the XXI Olympic Winter Games, the 2010 Winter Olympics. However, Andorra la Vella was not selected by the IOC as candidate city, following the evaluation report of an IOC commission. It also hosted both the 1991 and 2005 Games of the Small States of Europe.

Sights and culture

The city's old town is characterized by old stone streets and houses. The central Església de Sant Esteve (Saint Stephen) church is part of the area that guidebooks often label as a picturesque part of the city 7. This was built in a Romanesque style in the eleventh century. As mentioned earlier, the old town also includes the country's historic parliament building. Probably the oldest building in the city is another church, dating from the ninth century, of Santa Coloma.8

The city is the country's cultural centre, with the Government Exhibition Hall acting as a main theatre and museum. The piazza outside the parliament building is also the location of a number of events, and the town hosts a music festival every winter.

Economy

Andorra la Vella is the node for economic networks in Andorra; it is the country's commercial centre. In the country as a whole, 80% of the GDP is derived from the 10 million tourists who visit annually. The city is also the centre for the many banks and businesses that thrive from its tax haven status. The state is not a member of the European Union, but has a customs arrangement with the EU, and uses the Euro.

Content under GFDL. Source : Article Andorra la Vella from Wikipédia (authors)

Thermoplay center of Caldea

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:54:00 +0200

Caldea is a thermoplay center principally proposing activities of balneotherapy. It is situated in principality of Andorra, in the parish of Escaldes-Engordany. It is presently the greatest center of thermal water situated in the mountains of the whole Europe

Architecture

Caldea is a building of a remarkable futuristic architecture. Every fact of glass with some parts in stone (for most of the granite). The complex is not taken unnoticed in the andorran landscape since it possesses a tower towering at 80 meters of height that forms a point

Baths

Caldea possesses a great interior lagoon of more 600m² where the water is warmed between 32°C and 34°C. This lagoon is surmounted of accessible Jacuzzis by some stairs from the lagoon. One can find also a collar of swan, four successive basins of hydromassage and of the brumisations of water for the facial moisturizing. A great exterior lagoon is accessible by a river to carrying current. The water remains warmed at the same temperature as the interior lagoon what allows reaching the winter. The interior lagoon comprises a Jacuzzi in its breast and a bed of bubbles. There is a Jacuzzi at the outside that one reaches on foot also. The complex proposes also baths indo-romains, one of very warm thermal water (36°C) and the other one of cold water (14°C), it is recommended of alternating these two types of baths to favor the fiery circulation. There is a Jacuzzi afterwards to facilitate the muscular and articular relaxation.

Restoration

The thermoplay complex comprises 3 points of restoration. There is the Aquarius, only rewarded andorran restaurant of a star at the guide Michelin, first. There are the Deimos, restoring classic, and the Oasis that is a bar-restaurant that one can reach only in swimsuit afterwards because reserved to the customers of the thermoplay space. One can also a cocktail or an aperitif in the Sírius that is a panoramic bar bass at the summit of the tower. The view is impregnable on the city of Andorra La Vella.

Meritxell

Hotel Sol i Muntanya — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:11:00 +0200

The new sanctuary is a contemporary temple conceived by the Catalan architect Ricard Bofill and inaugurated in 1976, The old chapel, consecrated to saint Marie, was the prey of the flames in 1972 and it was rehabilitated in 1994. At present, it receives the exhibition "Meritxell Memoria"

Opened the whole year

Timetables

. July and August: from 9 hr to 20 hr . from September to June: Of the Wednesday at the Monday from 9 hr to 13 hr and from 15 hr to 18 hr . Closed the Tuesdays

Price

- Free entry

For the months of July, August and September. services of cultural guides are visitors to the arrangement.

Realizing a cultural route from the Sanctuary of Meritxell up to the village of Prats is possible.

Such Meritxell, AD100 Canillo, (+376) 851 253